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Legacies of the Rue Morgue : Science, Space, and Crime Fiction in France.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical Authors and Issues SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (305 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812292169
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Legacies of the Rue MorgueDDC classification:
  • 843/.087209
LOC classification:
  • PQ637.D4 G685 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Legacies of the Rue Morgue -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Prologue: Poe -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Mapping Murder -- PART I: ARCHAEOLOGIES -- Chapter 2. Quarries and Catacombs: Underground Crime in Second Empire Romans-feuilletons -- Chapter 3. Skulls and Bones: Paleohistory in Leroux and Leblanc -- Chapter 4. Crypts and Ghosts: Terrains of National Trauma in Japrisot and Vargas -- PART II: INTERSECTIONS -- Chapter 5. Street-Name Mysteries and Private/Public Violence, 1867-2001 -- PART III: CARTOGRAPHIES -- Chapter 6. Terrains Vagues: Gaboriau and the Birth of the Cartographic Mystery -- Chapter 7. Mapping the City: Malet's Mysteries and Butor's Bleston -- Chapter 8. Zéropa-Land: Balkanization and the Schizocartographies of Dantec and Radoman -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: Taking Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" as an inaugural frame, Andrea Goulet traces the shifting representations of violence, space, and nation in French crime fiction from serial novels of the 1860s to cyberpunk fictions today.
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Cover -- Legacies of the Rue Morgue -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Prologue: Poe -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Mapping Murder -- PART I: ARCHAEOLOGIES -- Chapter 2. Quarries and Catacombs: Underground Crime in Second Empire Romans-feuilletons -- Chapter 3. Skulls and Bones: Paleohistory in Leroux and Leblanc -- Chapter 4. Crypts and Ghosts: Terrains of National Trauma in Japrisot and Vargas -- PART II: INTERSECTIONS -- Chapter 5. Street-Name Mysteries and Private/Public Violence, 1867-2001 -- PART III: CARTOGRAPHIES -- Chapter 6. Terrains Vagues: Gaboriau and the Birth of the Cartographic Mystery -- Chapter 7. Mapping the City: Malet's Mysteries and Butor's Bleston -- Chapter 8. Zéropa-Land: Balkanization and the Schizocartographies of Dantec and Radoman -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

Taking Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" as an inaugural frame, Andrea Goulet traces the shifting representations of violence, space, and nation in French crime fiction from serial novels of the 1860s to cyberpunk fictions today.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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